Downloading
Mailman is available from the following sources:
If you're using a command line FTP client, be sure to set the mode
to binary. Once you've downloaded the source tarball, you can
unpack it with the following commands:
% cd /usr/local/src
% tar zxf mailman.tar.gz
Note that the file name may have the version number in it,
e.g. mailman-2.1.tar.gz .
Mailman's tarball unpacks into a directory called
mailman-xyz where xyz is the version number.
Note also that some versions of tar don't accept the
z option. In that case, you'll need to use the
gunzip program like so:
% gunzip -c mailman.tar.gz | tar xf -
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